The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 53
‘Who is speaking to me?’ cried the Princess in great surprise.
What happens: speak, cry · To what, where: me, Princess, great surprise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 speaking | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 surprise | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 surprise | amod |
| 14 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Princess | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · progressive | me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Princess | great surprise | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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